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Patent GB-190605665-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Audible and Visual Signals.
Inventor: ARNOLD GEORGE EDMUND
Filed: 1906-03-08
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 5665. Arnold, G. E. March 8. Signals, audible, pyrotechnic, and flash.-Relates to a signal giving a loud noise simultaneously with a flash. A high explosive such as tonite is used to give the audible signal, and the flash-light composition may consist of a metal or a metallic sulphide or both, a nitrocarbohydrate or gunpowder or both, with or without a metallic salt rich in oxygen. To prolong the flash, a nitrohydrocarbon such as dinitronaphthalene may be added. A suitable composition consists of aluminium, gun-cotton, potassium chlorate, antimony, and in some cases arsenic sulphide. The flash-light composition e surrounds the explosive charge. c ; d indicates the detonator.
Patent GB-190608968-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Making Metal Studs for the Treads of Tyres and of Stairs and the like
Filed: 1906-04-14
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 8968. Turner, W., and New Motor and General Rubber Co. April 14. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Rivets.-Studs for the treads of wheel tyres, stairs, &c. have hard heads and soft shanks which can be easily riveted. In forming the studs, the heads B, made with conical holes C of metal, such as cast steel, which will temper, and the shanks A, made in the forms shown of metal which will not temper, are riveted together and then heated and chilled.
Patent GB-190615137-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dental Tools.
Inventor: SPAHN CHARLES ANDREW
Filed: 1906-07-03
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 15,137. Spahn, C. A. July 3. Gilding.-An instrument for backing false teeth with gold to facilitate soldering, comprises two pivoted jaws 5, 10, and a forked member 15, 16 pivoted in a slot 11 in the jaw 10. The members 5, 15 are provided with sockets at their ends to receive caps 7, 18, preferably made of rubber &c. In use, a piece of gold is laid over the tooth 23 and pressed between the caps 7, 18. The forked member is then turned to bring the arm 16 above the cap 7, and the gold is pressed down around the pins 24 of the tooth, the arm 16 being formed with a hole to fit over the pins.
Patent GB-190615905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Reloading Cartridges.
Inventor: OLSSON JOHANNES
Filed: 1906-07-13
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 15,905. Olsson, J. July 13. Cartridge-loading apparatus.-Devices for decapping, recapping, choking the cartridge case, and bulleting are combined in one apparatus so that they may be operated by a single lever. For decapping and recapping, the empty cartridge case is slipped on to a pin 7, Fig. 1, and the lever 2 is pressed downwards, causing the tooth 5 on an arm 4, pivoted to the lever, to pierce and afterwards eject the fired cap. The new cap is inserted and is driven home by the arm 4<a>, the pin 7 being for this purpose swung outwards against the stop 8. A nose 11 on the lever 2 raises and lowers a vertical slide 9 provided with a plate 16 which co-operates with a similar plate 15 on the frame of the apparatus to choke the neck of the cartridge case, when the latter is inserted between the two plates. The bulleting is effected, as shown in Fig. 4, by placing the cartridge casa upon the base-plate 12 of the slide 9 and holding the bullet in a guide 14 beneath a cavity in the lower end of an adjustable pin 13 ; when the slide is raised, the projectile is forced into the neck of the cartridge case.
Patent GB-190618582-A (GB)
Filed: 1906-08-20
Granted: 1907-06-20
Abstract: 18,582. Fine Cotton Spinners' and Doublers' Association, [Lefevre, P.]. Aug. 20. Yarns, calendering.- In machines for calendering yarn in the hauk, preparatory to doubling, a retarding motion is applied to the weight so that pressure is imparted to the rollers gradually ; also, the frame is stopped automatically, as the intermediate roller is released to remove the yarn. The foot-lever D, which when depressed relieves the rollers of the weight W, is mounted loosely on a cross-shaft d. A ratchetwheel E is fixed on the shaft d and engages with a pawl e mounted on the foot-lever D. The rotation of the shaft d, and hence of the ratchet-wheel E, is controlled from the top roller A by a vertical shaft F and bevel or helical gearing f <1>. By this arrangement, when the foot-lever D is released it rises slowly and applies the weight to the rollers gradually, owing to the retarding-action of the pawl and ratchet-wheel ; when the lever reaches its highest position, the pawl slips freely over the ratchet-wheel. The frame is started by means of a belt-shifter H operated by a rocking lever K pivoted at k. The lever K is actuated by a crank L which engages a slot k<1>. The crank L is mounted on a shaft m and is rotated, to shift the strap on to the driving-pulley a, by a pinion m<2> gearing with a quadrant M. The rotation of the shaft m in this direction winds up a weighted cord m<1> on a pulley M<1>, which tends to reverse the shaft and the lever K so as to move the belt back on to the loose pulley a'. This return movement is blocked by a latch k<2>, which is freed by a projection n on a lever N when the latter is raised preparatory to removing the banks from the central roller A'. According to the Provisional Specification, the foot-lever may be connected with the belt-shifting device.
Patent GB-190619365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bearings for the Rotary Shafts of Cotton Gins.
Inventor: OGDEN FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-08-30
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 19,365. Ogden, F. Aug. 30. Lubricating.-In order that the hearings of the rotary shafts of cotton gins may be lubricated by plastic lubricants, such as oils and greases, made semisolid by the addition of soda, potash, or lime, while retaining the form of the supporting-portion of the bearing, the cap d is constructed as shown, with a cavity d<1> for the lubricant, and rests on a skeleton bush f of the form shown in Fig. 11. The cap is held down by bolts k, the beads k<1> of which fit in openings b, and is provided with a movable cover h. Fig. 12 shows the cap c<11> modified for the adjustable bearing of a gin.
Patent GB-190622604-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bushes for Valves.
Inventor: FIEGEHEN FRANK TRENHAM
Filed: 1906-10-12
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 22,604. Fiegehen, F. T., and Hart, C. R. C. Oct. 12. Check valves.-The central hole of a flexible pump or like valve is armoured by a bush a having pivoted arms of various shapes which are imbedded in the material of the valve. The T-shaped arms b, Fig. 1, are pivoted to a wire ring c laid in slotted lugs in the bush The rings b, Fig. 4, pass through holes in the lugs a'. Other similar constructions are shown.
Patent GB-190623502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cushion Wheels for Vehicles
Inventor: ANDREWS JOSEPH DEVONPORT FINNE
Filed: 1906-10-23
Granted: 1907-10-23
Abstract: 23,502. Andrews, J. D. F. Oct. 23. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Spring wheels; wheels with two or more rims or tyres side by side.-Relates to wheels of the type in which the tread consists of a series of rigid rings placed side by side and supported by springs, and consists of a construction in which the rigid tread rings A, Figs. 1 and 2, are separated by spokes B only, or spoke rings C, to which the rigid tread rings are connected by tangential helical springs D. The faces of the spoke rings may be recessed to hold lubricating-packing. Two or more wheels, each having several rigid tread rings supported in this way, may be arranged close together on the axle of a vehicle.
Patent GB-190703081-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Horse Shoes and the like.
Inventor: HEMSLEY ALBERT
Filed: 1907-02-07
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 3081. Hemsley, A. Feb. 7. Calks.-The calks b<1> are carried by a plate b shaped like a horseshoe and provided with a flange b<2> which engages with the inner edge of the shoe. The plate is secured by screws C, which pass through lugs b<4> on the flange b<2> and engage with the bevelled surface a<1> of the shoe. Pins or projections b<3>, formed on the outer edge of the plate b, fit in recesses a<2> in the shoe A.
Patent GB-190714278-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Mounting Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: BURTART HENRI JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-06-20
Granted: 1908-06-22
Abstract: 14,278. Burtart, H. J., and Gerrard, E. A. June 21, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Frames. - A vehicle wheel C is rotatably mounted upon an eccentric B which is connected to the axle A by a spring D so as to absorb shocks. In the Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901 modifications are also described and the invention is stated to be applicable to bicycles &c. One modification comprises a form in which power may be transmitted from the axle to the wheel by means of intermeshing gear-wheels concentric with the axle and wheel respectively. The invention is also described with reference to chain-driven wheels. Instead of connecting the eccentric to the axle it may be elastically connected to the vehicle frame. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190714715-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Certain Kiers for Bleaching and otherwise Treating Piece Goods in the Open State.
Inventor: ROTHWELL-JACKSON CHARLES LOXTO
Filed: 1907-06-26
Granted: 1907-12-05
Abstract: 14,715. Jackson, C. L. Rothwell-, and Jackson, H. L. Rothwell-. June 26. Bleaching.-A heating - apparatus is placed between the pump and the kier in bleaching &c. apparatus of the type described in Specification No. 5409, A.D. 1900, in order to heat the liquor circulating through the kier without diluting it. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the liquor is pumped by a pump f through tubes h surrounded by steam, which enters at i and leaves at j. The tube k conveys the heated liquor to the kier. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the liquor is pumped l through the casing g where it is heated by coils through which steam is passed, and is then conveyed to the kier as before.
Patent GB-190720178-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Mechanical Motion.
Filed: 1907-09-10
Abstract: 20,178. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. Dec. 27, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Levers.-Relates to controlling and locking devices for rotating parts. The driving-shaft A, Fig. 2, carries projections a<2>, a<3> adapted to bear against lever F or F<1> pivoted on the driven member B<1> and disengage it from the fixed casing C, according to the direction in which the shaft A is moved, the member B' being then free to be moved when one of its projections b', b<5> is engaged by the projection a<2> or a<3>. A series of levers &c. arranged as shown in Fig. 4 may be employed, joint pins L, M, N being placed between each pair of levers.
Patent GB-190721824-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Controlled Apparatus.
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-10-02
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 21,824. Mackenzie, J. W., [Westmorland Automatic Machine Co.]. Oct. 2. Boots and shoes, cleaning.-In coinfreed apparatus of the type in which the operation of the mechanism is effected by an electric motor, the coincontrolled circuit is distinct from the motor circuit which it closes, and means are provided for adapting the motor to break its own circuit. The invention is described in connexion with a boot-cleaning machine in which two operations are required for the insertion of a single coin. Actuating-mechanism ; coin action ; coin - discharging mechanism. - The motor 4 drives through an endless band 5 a shaft 6, which carries a sprocket-wheel 10 driving the operating-mechanism, and is geared through a reducing train 7 to a shaft 8 carrying a projection 39 and a switch-operating arm 17, Fig. 13. The coin inserted in a slot 23 passes down a shoot 24 into a vertical shoot 12, where it bridges a gap between contacts 28, 28<1>, Fig. 8, completing, when the operator presses the button 22, the circuit of the electro-magnet 19 and battery 21. The armature 20 then throws over the. rocking lever 16 from the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 13, closing the motor circuit through the contacts 13, 14. During the rotation of the shaft 8, the projection 39 rocks the arm 38 to raise the bar 35, thereby withdrawing the contact-finger 28<1> and allowing the coin to escape to the intermediate finger 34, which has simultaneously moved out into the shoot. A second coin inadvertently inserted at this stage is supported by the finger 33. As the shaft 8 continues to rotate, the bar 35 drops ; the coin escapes and bridges the gap between the contacts 29, 29', to permit a second operation of the machine when the motor circuit has been broken by the arm 17 engaging a notch 16<1> on the switch arm 16. In a boot-cleaning machine the customer can therefore place the other foot in position before pressing the button for the second operation.
Patent GB-190726045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Apparatus for Railways.
Inventor: STEINHAUFF CARL
Filed: 1907-11-25
Granted: 1908-11-25
Abstract: 26,045. Steinhauff, C. Nov. 25. Contacts, mechanical.-An apparatus for actuating signals on engines consists of an engine contactlever 2, Fig. 2, which raises a rod 3, to the end of which is attached a piston 4 sliding in a pipe 5, thereby completing through the contact 6 the local circuit of a bell 8 ; the bell continues to ring until the driver withdraws the catch 7 from beneath the piston. The track apparatus consists of a counterweighted T-piece 15, Fig. 3, which is raised and lowered, by the connexion 11, in conjunction with the semaphore signal 10. The contact in its raised position is adapted to actuate the depending lever 2 of a passing engine, to ring the bell 8. The bell 8 may be replaced by a mechanical signal, and the engine contact may be adapted to be independent of the direction of travel of the train.
Patent GB-190800569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Gum Tragasol.
Inventor: GREENWOOD CONRAD VARLEY
Filed: 1908-01-09
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 569. Greenwood, C. V. Jan. 9. Gums; size.-Gum tragasol, as made according to Specifications No. 24,877, A.D. 1894, and No. 10,822, A.D. 1905, is rendered soluble in water by mixing with it, during the manufacture, formic, citric, tartaric, or other organic acid, or a ferment, enzyme, or highly oxidizing-agent, such as sodium hypochlorite, which forms an organic acid in the material. Formic acid is preferable as it acts as a preservative agent, and, in calico-printing pastes, it gives brighter and purer shades. According to the Provisional Specification, derivatives of formic acid, or other acids, or other materials having an acid reaction, or any other materials effecting the same result, may be used. The soluble gum tragasol, instead of being marketed as a solution or jelly, may be dried by concentration, either alone or combined with other materials, such as gums, resins, waxes, or any starchy material, or even any suitable hard elastic compounds that are soluble.
Patent GB-190802915-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Automatically Igniting, particularly Domestic Fires at Predetermined Times.
Inventor: WISEMAN JOHN
Filed: 1908-02-10
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 2915. Wiseman, J. Feb. 10. Fire-lighting, automatic. -An apparatus for lighting fires at predetermined times is shown in plan. A paraffin lamp c rests upon a base c<2> and is connected by a metal rod f and a cord g to the arbor of an alarm clock. When the alarm sounds, the lamp is drawn underneath the end d<2> of a strip of paper, dipped in paraffin &c. and secured by spikes a<3> on the sides of an enclosing metal box a. The other end of the strip rests in a laid fire. The box a is partly open at the top to admit air for the lamp. The strip may be moved instead of the lamp.
Patent GB-190803162-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flexible Metallic Tubing.
Inventor: BOWLEY WILLIAM HENRY KANZOW
Filed: 1908-02-12
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 3162. Bowley, W. H. K. Feb. 12. Flexible metal tubes are made of a helicallywound corrugated strip having the special form shown in Fig. 1, packing g being carried in a groove. The strip may be strengthened by being bent back upon itself to make the part b, Fig. 3, of double thickness.
Patent GB-190807403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Furnaces or Apparatus for Supplying Heated Air for Industrial Purposes.
Inventor: FARBRIDGE JOHN ROBERT
Filed: 1908-04-03
Granted: 1909-04-05
Abstract: 7403. Farbridge, J. R. April 3. Air-heating furnaces; air, supplying.-In an airheating furnace, the supplies of air for heating and for primary and secondary combustion in the furnace are delivered through regulable openings from a common reservoir or chamber. To prevent loss of heat by radiation, the chamber into which the heated air is delivered is situated between the furnace and the cold-air chambers. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 9 and 10, air is delivered by a fan e to a chamber d, from which it passes through openings regulated by valves k, j, u<1> to the ash-pit for primary combustion, to the furnace chamber b for secondary combustion, and to side chambers u. Thence the air to be heated passes in opposite directions through sets of pipes q to hot-air chambers v, situated between the furnace and the cold-air chambers u. Cleaning-doors n<3> are provided in the outer tube-plates n<2>. In a modification, in which the heating-tubes are arranged in a similar manner to that described, the air is supplied directly to the ash-pit or furnace chamber, and is induced through the heating-tubes by an exhausting-fan. In another modification, the air passes through one set of heating-tubes only.
Patent GB-190809724-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Testing Gastric Juice.
Inventor: WEISS RICHARD
Filed: 1908-05-05
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 9724. Weiss, R. May 5. Testing gastric juices.-To estimate the acidity of gastric juices, a known quantity of filtered juice is run into a tube and two drops of an alcoholic solution of diamethylaminoazobenzene and phenolphthalein are added. Standard sodium-hydrate solution is run in until the solution turns canaryyellow, the amount added being read off on a scale on the tube. This reading gives the percentage of hydrochloric acid. Alkali is again added until the solution turns red, the amount run in being read off on a second scale, giving the percentage of total acidity. To facilitate reading, the first scale is preferably red, and the second scale yellow.
Patent GB-190811207-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Suction Devices for Removing Dust from Carding Engines and the like.
Inventor: GREGSON THOMAS
Filed: 1908-05-23
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 11,207. Gregson, T. May 23. Carding-engines; dust and the like, confining and expelling on generation.-To a steel suction tube or pipe 1, arranged above carding-engines or other machines, is connected a series of pendent pipes or tubes 2 having trumpet-shaped openings 3. To facilitate adjustment to the different parts of the machine from which dust is to be drawn, the tubes 2 are made telescopic and the sides of the openings 3 may be made with hinged doors 4. Dampers 6 may be used to close the tubes 2.
Patent GB-190818413-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Indicating or Limiting the Speed of Self-propelled Vehicles and the like.
Inventor: HOPKINS LEWIS ERNEST
Filed: 1908-09-02
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 18,413. Hopkins, L. E. Sept. 2. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to a speed indicator for use on motor road vehicles, which first operates an electric alarm on the approach to a predetermined speed, and then opens or closes an electric circuit to interrupt the operation of the motor. Fig. 1 is an elevation of the device. A casing a fixed to the car is formed with a circular chamber b, which contains mercury and communicates near its periphery with two glass tubes d<2>. A spindle e driven from the motor carries vanes f which are immersed in the mercury. Two insulated adjustable rods h<1>, h<2>, connected to electric circuits, are carried in the tubes at different levels. When the spindle e rotates the vanes J impart a whirling movement to the mercury and cause it to ascend in the tubes. As the speed increases, the mercury rises until it makes contact with the lower rod h<1> and closes an electric alarm circuit. On further increase of speed, the mercury makes contact with the rod h<2> and closes or shortcircuits a second circuit which preferably, if an internal combustion motor is employed, shortcircuits the ignition circuit. A passage j connects the upper part of the tubes with the chamber b to permit interchange of air when the mercury is displaced.
Patent GB-190818610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Pumps or Blowers.
Inventor: BOMBORN BERNHARD
IPC: F04D29/28
Filed: 1907-10-15
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 18,610. Bomborn, B. Oct. 15, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Centrifugal pumps.-The impellers of centrifugal fans and pumps are built up of corrugated rings assembled to form a cellular structure. In Fig. 6 the corrugated rings b are shown secured by long bolts between the hub disk h and the ring i. The general form of the impeller may be varied. Fig. 9 shows how the rings b may be arranged relatively to one another to produce the network. This construction imparts rigidity to the impeller. The rings may be cast or stamped out of sheet metal, and the surface may be curved in relation to a radius, or may be straight and oblique. The impeller may be made of one or more spirally arranged rolls of corrugated or angular material.
Patent GB-190819692-A (GB)
Title: An Appliance for Effecting the Removal of Valves of Internal Combustion, Steam, or other Engines.
Inventor: STAFFORD EDGAR
Filed: 1908-09-19
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 19,692. Stafford, E., and Peckham, W. J. Sept. 19. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Gas and like engines.- To facilitate the removal of valves which are closed by springs, a screwed sleeve B is mounted upon the guide A of the valverod or tappet. The sleeve is screwed up the tappet-guide in order to compress the valve spring while the cotter is withdrawn, as shown at B<1>. The sleeve may engage with an internal thread in the tappet-guide, or it may be fitted to the tappet instead of to the guide.
Patent GB-190819744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Balancing Means for Turbines.
Inventor: ROTH CARL
Filed: 1908-09-19
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 19,744. Both, C. Oct. 9, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Relates to the method of balancing steam turbines subjected to an external end-thrust, for example the thrust of a screw propeller described in Specification No. 6738, A.D. 1908, and consists in arranging the whole of the internal thrusts in an opposite direction to the external thrust. Specification No. 18,317, A.D. 1906, is also referred to. A turbine drum d, Fig. 1, is mounted upon a shaft a, by means of a spider c and a closed disk f. The steam is admitted by inlets g, m, and is exhausted at k. The highpressure end of the drum is fitted with labyrinth packing e. A.propeller n, mounted upon the shaft, causes a left-hand end-thrust. An aperturej in the drum admits steam at an intermediate pressure to the interior of the drum. The pressure on the blades is to the right. The disk f is subjected to an intermediate steam pressure to the right and an exhaust steam pressure to the left, the resultant thrust being to the right. The combined pressures on the blades and the disk f are designed to balance the propeller thrust exactly. A combined pressure and reaction turbine is also described. In a further modification a forward turbine d', Fig. 3, and an astern turbine p are mounted upon a single drum. Between the two turbines is a disk q, and two holes j<2>, j<3> are made in the drum. For forward driving the steam is admitted at g<2>, m<2>, while for astern driving admission takes place at s. k<1> is the common exhaust port so that whichever turbine is working the other is running idle in the condenser vacuum. As in the modification shown in Fig. 1, the pressure on the blades together with the resultant pressure on the disk q balances the external end-thrust.